Improvement in lighters for locomotive head-lights



G. M. DAVIS. Li' ghtoirsfo r Locomotive Head-Lights.

Patented Oct. 13,1874;

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UNI ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE M. DAVIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN LIGHTE RS FOR LOCOMOTIVE HEAD-LIGHTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,793, dated October 13, 1874; application filed June 30, 1874.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. DAVIS, of Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain. Improvements in Instruments for Lighting Locomotive Head-Lights, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to that class of devices-for lighting lamps,&c., in which a match is forced up between yielding surfaces, and caused to light.

The invention consists in providing the instrument, constructed substantially as is set forth hereinafter, withau adjustable stop, so

that it may be used with headlights of any size or height.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, Figure l represents a locomotive head-light, shown partly in section, with the lighter in place, as in the act of lighting. Fig. 2 is a View of the lightinginstrument removed after lighting, the said instrument being shown in a larger scale than in the other figure.

In the said drawing, A representsthe housin g or casement inclosing a head-light. B is the lamp, consisting of the usual argandwick-tube, 85c. Through the bottom of the easement or housing, and immediately below thewick-tube, I bore a hole, a, through which to light the lamp from the outside of the housing by the instrument now to be described. This instrument consists of a small tube, 0, to the top of which is secured the match-igniter D, made of the usual doublejaw form. A rod, E, provided with a convenient knob, c, at the lower en handling it, is fitted loosely to move f the tube 0, and is held from withdrawal byalsmall pin, f, at its upper extremity, projecting through the opening F. A

shoulder, g, upon the rod, E, is so located in proportion to the length of the rod and tube as to gage the thrust of the rod to just suffikind known as parlor matches, is to be illserted head upward in the opening F, and is ignited, when the 'moment arrives, by pushing up the rod smartly, which drives it through the jaws. Upon the tube 0 is an adjustable stop of any desired form, H, which may be moved to any part of said tube, and secured by a set-screw.

The instrument thus complete, as shown at Fig. 2, may be employed in lighting a head light of any size, it being only necessary to adjust the collar H at the proper position, so that the end of the match, when forced through the jaws, will come at the right height to light the wick,while the collar sets against the bottom of the housing of the head-light, as seen at Fig. 1. It is not attached in any manner to the lamp, and the head-lights, therefore, do not require to be taken down and altered to use the instrument. The only thing necessary to be done to the head-light is to bore a hole in the bottom of the housing to admit the instrument. If this hole creates an injurious draft, it may be closed by a little rubber plate or valve, through which the instrument upon occasion may be pushed, and inserted inside of the argand wick-tube, as shown-.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the tube 0, having the opening F, the igniter D, rod E, and adjustable stop H, constructed and operating as described.

G. M. DAVIS.

Witnesses:

HEINRICH F. BRUNS, JOHN W. MUNDAY. 

